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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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The Parkway Theatre
1930
View from across street towards the marquee on the Parkway theater on Mifflin Street, which reads: "Cohens and Kellys Atlantic City."
Parkway Theatre and City Hall
1953
Exterior view from sidewalk of City Hall, located at the intersection of West Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The Parkway Theatre, featuring the films "Scarlet Angel" and "Just Across the Stre...
Family Shoe Store
1930
Family Shoe Store, 214 State Street. The Orpheum Theatre is to the left and the Photoart House to the right.
State Street
1929
View of State Street looking toward the University of Wisconsin Madison campus from the Wisconsin State Capitol, with marquees for Ward-Brodt Music Co., Leath's Furniture store, New Orpheum Theatre...
Traffic on State Street
1930
Slightly elevated view of heavy automobile traffic, delivery trucks and pedestrians on State Street at North Carroll Street. View reaches to Bascom Hill of the University of Wisconsin. Commercial b...
Parkway Theatre Marquee
April 23, 1947
Marquee of the Parkway Theater, 6 West Mifflin Street, advertising the movie, "The Best Years of Our Lives".
